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More Power to CDS
Article by Shantanu K. Bansal The post of Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) was founded in the year 2020 with first CDS of India as Gen. Bipin Rawat, former Chief Continue Reading
Integration: What More Needs To Be Done?
Article by Shantanu K. Bansal Experts for long have realised the need for integrated commands. In order to have tri-service synergy, it was largely understood that India must go for Continue Reading
Meet Arjun Menon: A 17 Year Young Who Patented An Underwater Drone
Article Edited and Compiled by Shantanu K. Bansal A 17 year old boy from Mumbai has designed and patented one of its kind of underwater drone for the Indian Navy. Continue Reading
Socotra: An Island of Strategic Importance
The island also lies on seaways from Pakistan’s Gwadar port — a stepping stone on China’s trillion-dollar Belt and Road infrastructure initiative giving Beijing access to the Arabian Sea — to Djibouti and into east Africa.
Why Closer India-Yemen Ties can Help India to Achieve the Strategic Edge in the Gulf Region
During 1980s, India became more diplomatically active in Middle East affairs when Iraq-Iran war made uncertainty in gulf region and violence outbreak hit whole Middle East. The vicious episode of Continue Reading
Making India Ready to Face Apocalyptic Situations
Article by Shantanu K. Bansal The course of security studies around the world on any level of merit focuses on mainly two things, first, prevention of any threatening incident and Continue Reading
Will India Require More Missile Tracking Ship like the INS Dhruv?
Article by Shantanu K. Bansal The development of INS Dhruv (earlier known as the Project VC 11184) is a great breakthrough in several aspects. Not only in terms of aiding Continue Reading
India will Need to Carry Out Big Structural Reforms to Endure in a Post-covid World
The System which is marked by rigid hierarchies, hunderds of departments at work will never be able to achieve desired level of interoperability which is required to produce cost-effective results in limited time.
The Exceptional Utility of Special Forces Beyond the LAC
Special Forces are meant to be the eyes and ears of the divisional commander. The Line of Actual Control (LAC) passes through many unheld peaks which have not been touched by either side of the forces till now.
The sword of Narco-Terrorism Is dooming The International Security
Throughout the year 2020, Narco-Smuggling remained a hot topic due to different controversial reasons. In India, famous actor suicide case… “Drugs” remain matter of concern for government agencies around the Continue Reading